Posts by Joe K

Well, thats that then

If all this is true, then i agree that Toshibas mutterings about dropping it have indeed been triggered by Walmarts stance.

With Walmart and Bestbuy gone, HD-DVD is relegated to the scrapheap.

Hooray, now lets get the Bluray prices down.

Wouldn't surprise me

Toshiba are hardly a mega-multinational like Sony, exactly how many more billions can they lose promoting a dying format?

A valiant effort, to be sure, but they best bow out gracefully before the HD-DVD deadweight takes the whole company down with it.

Curb your Enthusiasm

I'm reminded of that scene where Larry David casually calls the guy a cunt for having a great poker hand.

Cue shocked faces, a man crying, a request to leave, and the crying man having to take time off sick from work from shock.

Oh America....

You can be fired for saying that over there? I can't work there then, i'd last about 5 minutes.

Good going

Considering the whopping price of the thing, thats pretty damn good going to outsell the PS2, Xboxes and not be as far off from the Wii as i thought.

Still gonna get people saying "but theres no games" in this thread though.

Well done Play

Great news, and i can't think of a site i'd rather have it first.

Will give a massive kick up the arse to Amazon and the rest as well.

Though at prices like that, for 320kps no less, who cares.

As the geeks say: p0wned!

Behind the times...

I presume this is all targeted at that dark magic known as Bittorrent (san encryption, of course).

Has no-one told them that the way now is uploads to fileshare sites like rapidshare and its many, many competitors, usually based in Russia or somewhere?

I'd like to see them stop people downloading zip/rar files.

Whatever they come up with, it'll take about a week for someone to come up with another method. Utterly pointless.

Meh!

Wasn't it proved more effective that playing Cliff Richard and classical music works better anyway?

Of course then you strain the human rights of everyone with working ears and not just chav muppets hanging around your local off licence bothering you to get them some cheap "cider".

Opportunistic scumbags

Doesn't surprise me that some conmen show up to try and fleece the public out of money whenever they can.

Same shit, different crisis. Still, at least they're only fleecing greedy fuckers trying to sue their own government (who is paid with their own tax money) for money for "distress".

Welcome to America! (what do you mean its here in the UK?)

*checks calendar*

Is it April 1st??!

This is a joke, surely? Has no-one told them that 1gb flash chips are now cheap as chips, or that downloads are the way now?

Good god, i hope no-one has *really* invested in this pile of pointless arse.

Evidently....

....flash chips haven't made it to India yet.

Either that or there is some kind of tax on them.

Because this makes about as much sense as having a VHS tape deck addon for a macbook Air.

Human rights? Never heard of it

Anyone see that poor kid who was raped by 3 HIV infected men while on holiday there in November? The police called the kid a homo and threatened HIM with a year in jail.

Great place.

I knew it

As soon as i saw this story on the BBC site this morning i thought "i bet this'll be on El Reg", but couldn't think of a single IT angle requiring it so.

Well done.

Hmm

""It was shut down by a high profile dawn raid on his flat"

Surely a quiet knock on the door in mid-afternoon would have sufficed?""

Ah but then he could have had time to delete all the evil pirate music he was hiding in there, and microwaved all the pirate CD's, and hide the guns, ect.

All joking aside

This kind of stuff really scares the bejesus out of me.

I think we're too far gone now, and that millions are going to start dying over the next decade or two.

We're all fucked.

Lame

So one ISP is taking it out of their DNS records?

I'm sure most people reading this already know, but just bookmark 83.140.176.146 and thats that little "censorship" rendered useless.

And how long before they just set up dyndns names, kick.me/to addresses, and mirrors all over the place.

Ridiculous.

Who needs yet another shiny box?

Its a great bargain, if you don't already have a DVD player and have some bizarre obsession about *never* buying a PS3, but in 12 months time this thing will be a doorstop.

Even now there is diminishing content available, and its only going to get far worse come May.

So you're going to have to get a Blu-ray player eventually, like it or not, which means yet another shiny box under the telly and even more wires round the back.

And as that'll be able to upscale DVD's too, what will the HD-DVD do once you've watched your movies a few times?

Who needs it?

My 40gig is still not even half full and its packed with demos and crap.

Save movies and music? Meh, i'll just stream them from my comp with TVersity thanks very much, it plays a LOT more formats anyway.

Why is anyone surprised?

The country was founded by religious puritans.

Nothings changed.

Oh and it was also founded with invasion, greed and murder.

Again, nothings changed.

Hooray!

Maybe this'll make Virgin update that slow, outdated piece of crap TV guide.

Either way, i hope the UK courts take a dim view of this US troll attempt.

Christ almighty

You could have labelled this NSFW!

Those horrific descriptions alone have no doubt got me targeted on my works firewall, as well as the governments most probably.

Huh?

I have no idea what this article is about.

Seriously, not a friggin clue.

I'll patent the "Off" switch

I'm guessing that the tin-pot company sitting on this patent until it could get enough cash never registered a worldwide one.

That would explain why they ain't suing microsoft (unless they are just scared of MS's limitless banks of lawyers).

But as the controllers were designed and built outside the US Sony just should tell them to go screw themselves, and if the moronic court system does not find in Sonys favour they should stop exporting to the US. That'd cause such economic turmoil that the Gov would step in and maybe finally fix their imbecilic patent system.

I.E: you can only patent something that ACTUALLY EXISTS!

So which browser?

What, no mention of "That IE for you"?

So does this attack punch through Opera and Firefox too?!?

Bollocks

So from their comment, they believe that Blu-ray not not offer quality, and is not affordable.

The chart positions of Blu-ray discs from every retailer would beg to differ!

HDDVD FUD we've been hearing all year.

What a bloody waste!

They should have spent a million or two on locking a team of database designers and coders in a room (metaphorically speaking) for a year and got the jon done in that timeframe.

How in the name of god do you spend nearly a billion on a database?!

Paramount don't have any choice

What do you think will happen to their share price over the next year?

With HD-DVD sales only charting in 3 (very low) places over the holidays, and Blu-ray storming it (consistently in the top 5 on Amazon), as well as the cheap QVC tat players not selling as much as they thought, can there really be any other option for Paramount?

The amount they lost from PS3 owners not being able to buy Transformers is bad enough, but to release all their upcoming films on a underperforming and dying format would be business suicide.

No matter, i've stuck with VHS's as those DVD things have evil DRM and life-ruining region locking. Waaa waaa waaah.

NO ONE CARES!!

In the areas this game has been allowed it has been a gigantic flop, not even charting.

Even if it comes out, its dead and buried among the games out this christmas.

Forget about this turd.

Christmas may be the deathblow

How many PS3's will shift over the next month, and how many people will supplement their new purchase with a BR film "just to see what its like".

Compare that to how many will take a chance on a player that only plays films, as well as the discs themselves.

It'll be interesting, and could seal HD-DVD's fate as a dud.

Just how stupid do they think users are?

Seen on a few PS3 game boxes in PC World, including the new Assassins Creed and Ratchet and Clank:

A sticker saying "HAVE THIS INSTALLED! Avoid the hassle, ask The Tech Guys to install this for you, only £14.99"

WTF?! What are they going to do, slide the disc in the drive and say "thats what you do when you want to play the game"?!?

(and no, you cannot install PS3 games to the HD)

Good riddance

They were doomed from the start, being a nearly-deceased company that was reborn still using the bloated US corporate management structure that brought it down the first time round.

CEO's? Boards? NASDAQ?

Delusions of grandeur, they were just a name, but had more managers on 6-figure salaries than programmers, and ate up all the budget.

Morons.

And the only people who cared about the name are misty-eyed 30-somethings. Everyone else just remembers them as the twats who came up with Driver3 and paid off certain magazines to give it high ratings, dooming the printed games magazine while they were at it too.

I don't get it

Surely whoever took those photos that were shopped own the copyright??

So Prince can claim now against every newspaper/mag/website thats ever shown a pic, he owns his sole image and you need permission to even look at him?

I'm really disappointed in B3ta too for capitulating to the little prick without argument.

Good

No matter how noble you feel about the environment its just easier to forget to take a reusable one with you when you go the shops, so the end result is a cupboard full of the bloody things.

Never mind a ban, these are businesses we're talking about, so just slap a 5p tax on each bag and they'd go "we're not paying that, the customers can bring their own" instantly.